IBM Token Ring

[Jules Richardson]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 07:48 -0700, Lyle Bickley wrote:
> 2) Once you've got two workstations/servers connected individually, then test 
> them together.  Although I found IBM, Olicom and Thomas-Contrad to be very 
> compatible - I'd stick to one vendor until you've got at least two stations 
> communicating with each other. The drivers for each vendors product and 
> sometimes model are totally different.  Be sure you are using the drivers 
> appropriate for each vendor's board.

I certainly used to have all sorts of trouble with drivers (and
different OSes). As Lyle says, keep it simple at first and get a link
running between two machines with the minimum of hardware in the middle
before adding more stuff. 

ISTR finding that 5 or 6 years ago software for the Madge PCI cards
tended to be the least troublesome (just a shame that the Linux driver
was proprietary back then; maybe it isn't these days)

cheers

Jules